Pivot said...

Pivot at 05:27 PM JST - 18th November

Life sentence = 10 years?? So these jokers will come out into society perhaps around their early 30s? These guys don't deserve the constant meals and dry place to sleep they will have in jail. God I hope they get it from the other inmates.

I hope they take away…

Posted in 2 NZ men convicted of murdering, abusing 3-year-old girl at 05:27 PM JST - 18th November
Pivot at 02:49 PM JST - 18th November

I don't get it.

Posted in Okamoto's A-bomb mural at 02:49 PM JST - 18th November
Pivot at 11:58 AM JST - 17th November

I really hope they play up the fact that he wasn't wearing a seatbelt in the news for this. And add all sorts of little experiments to show how it could save lives. God knows there should be more of these experiments on tv.

Posted in 7-year-old boy killed in car crash in Fukushima at 11:58 AM JST - 17th November
Pivot at 10:20 PM JST - 11th November

Proxy, that's some great statistics there. Sources, please? I like the way you present them like they are the final word.

Honestly, haggling over numbers serves no purpose. Yes, the numbers are very likely overestimated, just as yours might be seriously conservative. The point is, that many many women WERE…

Posted in Taiwan resolution calls on Japan to compensate comfort women at 10:20 PM JST - 11th November
Pivot at 05:18 PM JST - 11th November

Sarge - couldn't Palin simply have said "no thanks, let's go for something a little cheaper?". I suppose she tried hard to refuse them but McCain forced it over her head like we do with babies.

I guess she couldn't say NO to the GOP on such a small matter,…

Posted in Palin sorts clothes to see what belongs to Republican Party at 05:18 PM JST - 11th November
Pivot at 05:02 PM JST - 11th November

It will truly be egg on Japan's political face if they allow this moron to continue taking tax payers money for his retirement fund. And how come no one is investigating the 3 million yen prize for this "competition".

Sabiwabi, I speak as someone from one of the countries where…

Posted in Fired ASDF chief calls for revision of Constitution; defends essay on war at 05:02 PM JST - 11th November
Pivot at 11:37 AM JST - 11th November

Well, I can see how this may help some companies to stand out with brand names that otherwise might overlap with others that have the same reading but different Kanji. And if the company's target audience have nothing to do with a market outside of Japan, why bother about them?…

Posted in Gov't to permit Japanese suffix for domain names at 11:37 AM JST - 11th November
Pivot at 11:11 AM JST - 11th November

The true heroes in Japan.

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Pivot at 11:04 AM JST - 11th November

Was it to check out the secret underground tunnel leading to the diamond!?!?!

Posted in Bushes and Obamas: All smiles at the White House at 11:04 AM JST - 11th November
Pivot at 10:41 AM JST - 11th November

As a purely neutral observer, I have to say that you lot are far too sensitive about this. Was a crime NOT committed? Should JT have NOT reported it? If they reported it, should it have been printed in much smaller font than the rest of the articles to de-emphasize?

Posted in U.S. serviceman held for breaking into woman’s apartment in Kanagawa at 10:41 AM JST - 11th November